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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Upon learning on Christmas Day that their rich and imperious grandmother may soon die and disown the family unless the one who offended her deeply will confess, each of the three Sullivan sisters sets down her offenses on paper.
2) Jake
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
162 p. : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
3) Genie wishes
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows fifth-grader Genie Kunkle through a tumultuous year at Hopkins Country Day School, as a new girl tries to take Genie's place as Sarah's best friend, and Genie learns that expressing her opinion in public can be scary when she is elected class blogger.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
5) Air
Author
Publisher
Adaptive Books, an imprint of Adaptive Studios
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After 17-year-old Grey witnesses the tragic death of his mother in Colorado, he is shipped off to live with his aunt in inner-city Baltimore, where he struggles to fit in to a new school and community. His new friend Akil introduces him to the enigmatic Kurtis, the leader of a group that uses high-octane sports as a form of social activism. By challenging the police with death-defying stunts and posting videos of them online, Kurtis, Grey, and their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
183 p. : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Cody Parker moves to Baltimore, Maryland, where as a fat eighth-grader, he has to deal with brutal teasing from a baseball teammate, and his school is beset by a rash of mysterious thefts that threaten to sideline Cody and ruin a golden season for his team.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Propelled by his best friend's impending move out of state and inspired by Ferris Bueller's Day Off, sixteen-year-old Harrison plans a farewell through Baltimore that includes a road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party.
Author
Series
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
101 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Babe Ruth's baseball glove goes missing before a Baltimore Orioles game. It's up to cousins Mike and Kate to find its whereabouts"--
10) Sasha Masha
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school junior Alex has just begun dating when he begins to realize his true identity as a young woman named Sasha Masha.
Alex just wants to be a Real Boy, to feel like he belongs in his home, his family, his skin. Then comes Tracy, who thinks he's adorably awkward, who loves Alex's goofy smile and his awkwardness. When they begin dating, Alex feels strange in his role of "boyfriend." In his daydreams, Alex tries on dresses and swipes on lipstick.Then...
11) The hired girl
Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl...
12) Dread nation
Author
Series
Dread Nation volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities--and Jane is studying to become an Attendant,...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in Baltimore is hot and sticky, from little Hazel playing on the slide to the grandma knitting on the porch. So when evening comes, they all jump at the chance for a little "cool off and ride." The whole neighborhood-from the Taylor twins to Grandpa, and even the dog!--piles onto a breezy homemade roller coaster, a city trolley! In this charming, rhythmic romp, Claudia Friddell and Jenn Harney take us back to a time before air conditioning...
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